Earlier this month my wife and I took some time to go one a monthly photowalk that Efrain from Illuminate Workshops organizes every month free of charge. This photowalk was down at the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs. Despite the fact that I shoot professionally as a Denver wedding photographer, I still…
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In case you missed the news 1/3 of the moisture we’re received in Denver this year came down in the 24 hours leading up to Maggie and Jim’s wedding in a mixture of snow and rain. But the weather didn’t stand a chance against these two families. Despite everything the wedding went off without…
Since it’s a slow time of year I was archiving some material and realized during part of this year I was very lax about blogging some of my creative work. So I thought before things got too busy with 2009 I’d do some last minute 2008 catch-up posts. As a photographer I consider myself…
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wow, great lighting and perfect outdoor portraits. keep them coming!
Oh, my goodness! The very last one is beautiful! (and so is she) Great photo.
OOOO, the last one is awesome! Love the light! Love the sticks.
Wow she is gorgeous! I love the last photo and the third one. Lovely work 
Lovveeee the last one!!! awesome!!!
Great work on these. The last one is my favorite.
She looks like an exotic beauty. My favorite is the sepia toned image but all are gorgeous!
gorgeous! I love the color in the images so rich.
Absolutely stunning! I LOVE the last shot, so, so beautiful.
Anna is a local model who was referred to me by a mutual friend, JWalker. She came into the studio last weekend for some fresh material for her portfolio. Typically for these type of shoots I’ll cut my normal portrait session price for some basic headshot work, or for a longer session I’ll to a…
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She is beautiful! You captured her very well.
LOVE the one of her on the couch. The light is awesome!
Hey Mark! This looks like it was a great session. The images are awesome! I love that first one by the window.
I love the last two! Beautiful!!!
Great images! I’m sure she loves them.
Beautiful work! I like the last row, middle pic especially.. just gorgeous!
Wow what a year. Retired from the Dumb Friends League. Moved from a 230sqft studio to an 1800sqft studio. Poise and Shades Model Management Fashion Shows J-Chans Designs My first chance to attend a Furry Scurry Senior Photos Wedding Fever Stock and Getty and the creative projects. I fired a little over 30,000 frames this…
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Wow, look at all those images…very impressive! Your photography is awesome..
Ok I am total love with you work! Especially the studio and senior work…AMAZING!!! What a fantastic slideshow !
Awesome work. Keep up the good job. I am a B schooler and would appreciate a hit back on mine. http://www.photosbynick.com/blog
wow congrats on a prosperous 2008! love your work!
ok that’s a lot of photos! great stuff Mark – hope next year is even better!
Your work is gorgeous! Congratulations on a fabulous year.
Nice stuff!
your portrait and wedding photography is awesome! The different lighting techniques blows me away, you now have a blogstalker hope your 2009 is even better than 2008!
Amazing! Love your fashion work!
I love your fashion shots! Awesome makeup too!
Awesome set of work!!!!!!
killer portfolio! you have some very nice images there. hoping 2009 will even be better
And how many of that 30,000 are mine? Great job Mark! I’m very impressed with what you’ve accomplished within a year. Don’t give up!
If I where to break it down by the numbers I’d guess your stuff Jessica makes up an huge piece of that, if only because the outfits are so cool I take far more shots than needed.
Fantastic variety of portraits!
by Mark Hayes - Denver Wedding Photographer
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now those are gorgeous shots. I could definitely see how you can use these skills in wedding photography/engagements as well. that is awesome that you have this ws available. I am scheduleed to do the “One Light” ws this fall.
Mark, these are amazing. I’m just a little bit jealous of the cool landscape and your amazingly starry nights out there. Here we have a nice orange north-east haze at night. Sigh.